As panic on climate change once again crescendos, it is perhaps worth remembering that we've been here many times before
Here in 1989, where the UN Environment Programme predicts disaster if we don't fix global warming before the year 2000apnews.com/bd45c372caf118…

And here, from 1982, where the executive director of the UN Environment Programme, warning that the world was only a couple of decades away from an ecological disaster as final as nuclear warfacebook.com/bjornlomborg/p…

To be clear, global warming is a real problem, but nowhere near the panicky claims often heard: If we do nothing, the impact by 2100 will be equivalent to losing 2-4% of your annual income (in a world where you'll be 150-500% richer)nber.org/reporter/2017n…

#ClimateChange activists plan to cause rush hour disruption in #London’s financial district on Thursday before they bring an end their climate “rebellion” that has led to protesters occupying sites across London for more than a week.

Their climate “rebellion” to highlight the escalating global ecological crisis will draw to a voluntary close with a “closing ceremony” & a day of disruption in which demonstrators plan to swarm into the Square Mile to cause roadblocks, targeting big business & banking.

The activists said protesters had taken to the streets & raised the alarm in more than 80 cities in 33 countries. “People are talking about the #climate & #ecological emergency in ways that we never imagined,” they said.

The farm animal production sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to soil degradation, dwindling water supplies, & air pollution.

The animal agriculture sector also encompasses feed grain production which requires substantial water, energy, and chemical inputs, as well as energy expenditures to transport feed, live animals, and animal
products. All of this comes at a substantial cost to the environment.

One of animal agriculture’s greatest environmental impacts is its contribution to global warming and climate change...

1. The oceans are being killed.2. Forests will soon be gone.3. Fertile soil is disappearing.4. Megafauna risk extermination.5. Insects are vanishing.6. Climate chaos is inevitable.7. Extinction is now.8. Plastic is in our blood.

Climate change is real, and among its many consequences it is making storms worse. Florida Governor Rick Scott, now running for Senate, banned state agencies from using the phrase “climate change.” Floridians should vote accordingly.miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…

“Florida man bans state agencies from naming the thing currently destroying the state.”